Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Replaced by Orienteering. Introduced again in 2010 as historic merit badge. Personal Health: Physical Fitness: Heart: Replaced by Personal Fitness in 1952 Photography: Photography: Camera: Pioneering: Pioneering: Pick and Ax: Plumbing: Plumbing: Faucet: Logo used continuously for 100 years Poultry Farming: Poultry: Rooster: Merged into Animal ...
Offered only in 2010, the Historical Merit Badge program, part of the Boy Scouts of America centennial, allowed Scouts to earn the discontinued Carpentry, Pathfinding, Signalling, and Tracking (originally called Stalking) merit badges. The patches for these historical merit badges are distinguished by a gold ring on the outside edge.
The "Personal Health" merit badge was an original 1911 badge with a heart motif. [19] It was merged with the "Physical Development" badge and was replaced in 1952 with the "Personal Fitness" badge. [19] It was redesigned in 1969, displaying a youth in gym gear doing what appears to be a jumping jack exercise. [19]
In some cases, the entire subject has been dropped from the merit badge roster. In others, the merit badge's name has been changed, with or without significant revision to the badge's requirements. In 2010, in celebration of Scouting's 100th anniversary , four historical merit badges were reintroduced for one year only—Carpentry, Pathfinding ...
Advancement is one of the methods used to promote the aims of character development, citizenship training, personal fitness, and leadership. Everything a Cub Scout does in the advancement program is intended to achieve these aims and aid in personal growth.
The 50-Miler Award is an award of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) designed to promote the ideals of Scouting and in Scoutcraft, conservation, self-reliance, and physical fitness. The award may be earned by Scouts , Venturers , and Scout leaders .
Project COPE, which stands for Challenging Outdoor Personal Experience, is a program in the Boy Scouts of America that consists of tests to develop strength, agility, coordination, reasoning, mutual trust, and group problem-solving. [1] [2] Founded in 1980, by 1991 there were 200 COPE courses offered across the United States. [3]
When National Service was first introduced in Singapore in 1967, the physical fitness test included a 4.8 km (3.0 mi) run to be completed within 30 minutes, and the completion of a 9.6 km (6.0 mi) run within 70 minutes while wearing the skeletal battle order (a type of load-bearing equipment).